Eugène Jamot (1879–1937) was a French entomologist who played a major role in the prevention of sleeping sickness in Cameroun.
He was born in the hamlet of La Borie, part of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs, in the Creuse département of central France.
Jamot trained as a medical doctor at the University of Montpellier. In 1909, he enrolled at the Marseilles School of Tropical Medicine and a year later, in 1910 he went to Cameroon with a French colonial hygiene group. They joined German scientists who had organised a Sleeping Sickness Treatment Research Group. Jamot discovered that the tsetse fly was the vector of the trypanosomes causing the disorder. Implementing measures taken against insect borne diseases during the construction of the Panama Canal, Jamot’s team eradicted the tsetse fly in Cameroun and hence the disease. Later Jamot was made director of the Pasteur Institute at Brazzaville.
He died on the 7th April 1937, in the village of Sardent, Creuse.
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